METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING CONFIGURATION ATTRIBUTES USING FASTREPAGE ATTRIBUTE IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

• US 20090164609A1
• Filed: 10/27/2006
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Prakash, Rajat, Horn, Gavin, Ulupinar, Faith
• Granted Patent: US 8,326,330 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/221
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/318 Received signal strength
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/382 for resource allocation, admission control or handover
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0003 by switching between different modulation schemes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0026 Transmission of channel quality indication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0028 Formatting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0675 characterised by the signaling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2647 Arrangements specific to the receiver only equalisation H04L27/01
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0803 Configuration setting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/083 for increasing network speed
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0869 Validating the configuration within one network element
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/10 Scheduling measurement reports ; Arrangements for measurement reports
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0235 where the received signal is a power saving command
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/00 Reducing energy consumption in communication networks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A method and apparatus for updating configuration attributes by transmitting a FastRepage Attribute in a wireless communication system is provided, comprising generating a FastRepage Attribute comprising an 8 bit Length field wherein the Length field indicates a value of length of the FastRepage attribute in octets excluding the length of Length field, an 8 bit AttributeID field, an 8 bit FastRepageEnabled field wherein the FastRepageEnabled field is set to a value ‘0×01’ to indicate that FastRepage is enabled and a 16 bit FastRepageInterval field, wherein the FastRepageInterval field indicates a value of interval at which an access network pages an access terminal when the access network does not receive a response to a page and transmitting the FastRepage attribute over a communication link. A method and apparatus is further provided for receiving and processing the FastRepage attribute.

Claims

1. A method for updating configuration attributes in a wireless communication system, characterized in that:

generating a FastRepage Attribute comprising an 8 bit Length field wherein the Length field indicates a value of length of the FastRepage attribute in octets excluding the length of Length field, an 8 bit AttributeID field, an 8 bit FastRepageEnabled field wherein the FastRepageEnabled field is set to a value ‘

0×

01’

to indicate that FastRepage is enabled and a 16 bit FastRepageInterval field, wherein the FastRepageInterval field indicates a value of interval at which an access network pages an access terminal when the access network does not receive a response to a page; and

transmitting the FastRepage attribute over a communication link.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that generating the FastRepageInterval such that it does not contain odd values.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that performing a fast repage once for each missed page.

4. A computer-readable medium including instructions stored thereon, characterized in that:

a first set of instructions for generating a FastRepage attribute comprising an 8 bit Length field wherein the Length field indicates a value of length of the FastRepage attribute in octets excluding the length of Length field, an 8 bit AttributeID field, an 8 bit FastRepageEnabled field wherein the FastRepageEnabled field is set to a value ‘

0×

01’

to indicate that FastRepage is enabled and a 16 bit FastRepageInterval field, wherein the FastRepageInterval field indicates a value of interval at which an access network pages an access terminal when the access network does not receive a response to a page; and

a second set of instructions for transmitting the FastRepage attribute over a communication link.

5. The computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that a third set of instructions for generating the FastRepageInterval such that it does not contain odd values.

6. The computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that a fourth set of instructions for performing a fast repage once for each missed page

7. An apparatus operable in wireless communication system, characterized in that:

means for generating a FastRepage Attribute comprising an 8 bit Length field wherein the Length field indicates a value of length of the FastRepage attribute in octets excluding the length of Length field, an 8 bit AttributeID field, an 8 bit FastRepageEnabled field wherein the FastRepageEnabled field is set to a value ‘

0×

01’

to indicate that FastRepage is enabled and a 16 bit FastRepageInterval field, wherein the FastRepageInterval field indicates a value of interval at which an access network pages an access terminal when the access network does not receive a response to a page; and

means for transmitting the FastRepage attribute over a communication link.

8. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7, characterized in that having means for generating the FastRepageInterval such that it does not contain odd values.

9. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7, characterized in that having means for performing a fast repage once for each missed page.

10. A method for updating configuration attributes in a wireless communication system, characterized in that:

receiving a FastRepage Attribute comprising an 8 bit Length field wherein the Length field is interpreted as a value of length of the FastRepage attribute in octets excluding the length of Length field, an 8 bit AttributeID field, an 8 bit FastRepageEnabled field wherein the FastRepageEnabled field is processed as a value ‘

0×

01’

to interpret that FastRepage is enabled and a 16 bit FastRepageInterval field, wherein the FastRepageInterval field is interpreted as a value of interval at which an access network pages an access terminal when the access network does not receive a response to a page; and

processing the FastRepage attribute.

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, characterized in that interpreting the FastRepageInterval to determine that it does not contain odd values.

12. A computer-readable medium including instructions stored thereon, characterized in that:

a first set of instructions for receiving a FastRepage Attribute comprising an 8 bit Length field wherein the Length field is interpreted as a value of length of the FastRepage attribute in octets excluding the length of Length field, an 8 bit AttributeID field, an 8 bit FastRepageEnabled field wherein the FastRepageEnabled field is processed as a value ‘

0×

01’

to interpret that FastRepage is enabled and a 16 bit FastRepageInterval field, wherein the FastRepageInterval field is interpreted as a value of interval at which an access network pages an access terminal when the access network does not receive a response to a page; and

a second set of instructions for processing the FastRepage attribute.

13. The computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 12, characterized in that a third set of instructions for interpreting the FastRepageInterval to determine that it does not contain odd values.

14. An apparatus operable in wireless communication system, characterized in that:

means for receiving a FastRepage Attribute comprising an 8 bit Length field wherein the Length field is interpreted as a value of length of the FastRepage attribute in octets excluding the length of Length field, an 8 bit AttributeID field, an 8 bit FastRepageEnabled field wherein the FastRepageEnabled field is processed as a value ‘

0×

01’

to interpret that FastRepage is enabled and a 16 bit FastRepageInterval field, wherein the FastRepageInterval field is interpreted as a value of interval at which an access network pages an access terminal when the access network does not receive a response to a page; and

means for processing the received FastRepage attribute.

15. The apparatus as claimed in claim 14, characterized in that having means for interpreting the FastRepageInterval to determine that it does not contain odd values